A visitor looks into the McDonald's Fossil Lab. Inside are three preparators, scientific equipment, wooden trays, and a prominent exhaust system with tubes that extend down from the ceiling.

McDonald’s Fossil Preparation Lab

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The Changing Face of Science

Grainger Science Hub

View of the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center, prominently showing a large model of a DNA double helix and an interactive touchscreen table. Windows in the background look into the Pritzker Laboratory for Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Sy

DNA Discovery Center

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Media

Remaking Akeley's Striped Hyenas Diorama

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The Black Taxidermy Hall of Famer You Need to Know

Pink coneflowers in front of the Field Museum's north entrance on a sunny day with clear blue skies.

Make the Most of Your Summer Museum Visit

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The Rice Native Gardens at the Field use native prairie plants like coneflowers.

Make the Most of Your Museum Visit

2020 Year in Review

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A series of six painted iguanas in different colors and stages of the process.

Fact and Fiction About Watercolor

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Two children seated at a table look at picture books.

Experience the Field at Home

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Carl Cotton, wearing a lab coat, stands in front of a display of bird specimens. He looks down at a card he’s holding in his hand.

A Natural Talent: The Taxidermy of Carl Cotton

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Carl Cotton places individual letters on a label for an exhibition featuring hybrid birds.

Carl Cotton: Chicago's Original Black Taxidermist

Carl Cotton, holding a paintbrush, sits at a table with various art supplies and a large model of a turtle.

Finding Carl Cotton

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Close-up view of brown tail vertebrae that curve around. They're positioned on a white cushion.

Rediscovering a Dinosaur Named Elmer

The dinosaur's eight-foot-long tail is nearly complete.

In the foreground, an eye-level view of a black plastic structure holding plants. The background includes the museum's Stanley Field Hall, with two totem poles to the left and three cloud-like black plastic structures suspended from the ceiling.

Bringing the Great (Cretaceous) Outdoors Inside

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The Field Museum

Painting the CARACAL

A small crocodile mummy wrapped in brown cloth with the eyes drawn on, and other similar bundles in the background

Animal Mummies for Sale in Ancient Egypt

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Two women wearing headlamps peer into the mouth of a large taxidermy elephant

Q&A with a Conservator on the Complex History of Ivory

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Conservators Eugenie Milroy (left) and Stephanie Hornbeck examine the teeth and tusks of one of the Akeley elephants in the Field Museum's Stanley Field Hall

Beaver dissection HIGHLIGHTS!

The Rare Book Room!

A man holding the upper jaw of a very large animal, with long pointed teeth. The man is kneeling on the floor in between two rows of shelves that hold other fossils

Q&A with a Fossil Mammals Curator

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A woman sitting at a desk with art supplies, holding a pencil in hand and drawing a nautilus

Bringing Fossils to Life Through Art

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Spring Migration Notes...By a Murderer

Woman sitting at a table in a lab, holding a marker and writing on something small

Women in Science and Art: Rebecca Banasiak, Mammals Collections Assistant and Preparator

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Numbering small skeletal specimens that will be installed into the main mammals collection.

Two photos side-by-side: A women sitting in front of a large drill, and a bowl with a gold bracket attached to it, for display

What's in a Name? That Which We Call a Dinosaur

Women in Art: Ann Prazer, Mountmaker

Facts Matter at The Field Museum

How Our Fossil Prep Lab Helped Fight Real-Life Crime

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Using a water-cooled rock saw to cut rhino horn for a special request.

Behind-the-scenes on our new set!

Painting the Diorama

Stabilizing the Plaster on Minirdis’ Coffin

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Conservator Morgan Nau stabilizes plaster fills with adhesive injected with a syringe. Photo credit: JP Brown. Object number 111517.

Stabilizing the Plaster on Minirdis' Coffin

Documenting and Cleaning 'Minirdis'

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Conservator Mimi Leveque examines and documents the condition of the shroud. Photo credit – JP Brown.

Two views of the coffin of Minirdis, from above (front) and one side.

Opening the Coffin of Minirdis

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Photos by Sophie Hammond-Hagman.

Caring for a Collection: Equipment

The Audubon Field Guide

Caring for a Collection: Improvements in Fossil Mammals

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The Brain Scoop

Ask Emily #8

Ask Emily #6

Welcome to The Field Museum

Chicago Adventure, Part Six: The Spice of Life

Chicago Adventure, Part Five: The Platypus, The Skin, & The Cold

Chicago Adventure, Part Four: Rodents of Unusual Size (And Other Mammals, Too)

Chicago Adventure, Part Three: Little Skeletons

Ask Emily #2

Ask Emily #1

Preparing for XRF in the Regenstein Lab

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Making the skeletons dance

Members’ Nights

WeDigBio: Chicago

Member and Donor Preview Days

Behind-the-Scenes

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